Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] us [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember a gang of us once roamed the streets looking for fag ends from which we shook the remaining bits of tobacco to roll our own . |
| 2 | Of course this picture was taken at Tennessee , right before we went overseas to start our bombing missions so that the aeroplane behind us course does n't have a name , was one that was used for training . |
| 3 | The authority is within its assigned area , it is for example properly adjudicating on furnished premises , and the question before us now concerns the rationale for judicial control over the fair rent which should be charged for such premises . |
| 4 | ‘ Every match for us now has significance if we want that UEFA place , ’ said Joe Jordan . |
| 5 | ‘ That , of course , obviates the need for us even to attempt to detect or frame coherent theories of motivation . |
| 6 | It is an elementary mistake to take it for granted that an act which has one symbolic meaning for us today possessed that same meaning eight hundred years ago . |
| 7 | A group of us hastily slung together a plan and went back into the concert hall in an effort to oust the ruling junta . |
| 8 | Only a handful of us ever knew . ’ |
| 9 | Birmingham Polytechnic offer all their facilities absolutely free of charge to us so get yourself down in the entertainment bar in Aston . |
| 10 | Now , if Edinburgh District want to talk to us about Ingleston , and we do n't want to upset them , we 'll talk to them , but it would have to be an in , and enormous financial attraction for us even to consider that . |
| 11 | Jason says : ‘ Gary 's got more money than the rest of us because he gets publishing royalties for the songs he 's written , but the rest of us just get a modest wage . ’ |
| 12 | The rest of us just had knowledge . |
| 13 | Two-thirds of my male friends have got married , and the rest of us just sit around in the pub all weekend . |
| 14 | The rest of us just dabble in it . |
| 15 | and those in advantageous positions , the rest of us just do n't count . |
| 16 | ‘ She invited my friend ; we … the rest of us just tagged along . ’ |
| 17 | Only the truly virtuous strip their tack and clean it every time it 's used — the rest of us simply do n't have time . |
| 18 | Enough has been revealed about the antics of the Monarchy in the past few weeks to suggest that people in palaces should not be trying to tell the rest of us how to behave . |
| 19 | They do n't know anything about life , so they come and tell the rest of us how to live it . ’ |
| 20 | Accountants would always be kept busy showing the rest of us how to work the system . |
| 21 | But it was its political and artistic daring , enhanced by the most attractively human of values , that the rest of us so admired — ‘ those little films ’ , someone very accurately said , ‘ which are , as if by accident , important . ’ |
| 22 | This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three . |
| 23 | ‘ If he does n't know I 'm not guilty , there 's no chance of us ever working anything out … and if there 's no chance , I just ca n't stay . ’ |
| 24 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 25 | The Jesus who has shown his solidarity with us now calls us to show our solidarity with him . |
| 26 | Only a fraction of us really break the mould : immigrants usually , or women ; others on the up and up . |
| 27 | THE air around us always contains a certain amount of moisture — a lot on a humid summer 's day , less on a clear winter one . |
| 28 | I see no reason for us actually to go through the whole pros and cons . |
| 29 | When a number of us here did a study of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election , where Tony Benn was standing for the first time , and asked constituents themselves what they felt about the broadcast coverage , they repeatedly used the word ‘ bias ’ to describe it . |
| 30 | Clint : ‘ There 's never been any doubt for us right form the first time we came over . |